BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t

Pasak Bumi jamu

Many Indonesians are skeptical toward modern medicines. Instead they prefer to rely on herbal remedies, better known as jamu. 

There is jamu for headaches, stomachaches, and backpain, jamu to make you slim, jamu to help you put on weight and jamu to alleviate the symptoms of flu. There is even jamu to make you hard. Because long before Pfizer created the wonderdrug Viagra, Indonesians were consuming a herbal remedy called Pasak Bumi.

Pasak Bumi jamuPasak Bumi will make YOU a man 

Pasak Bumi comes from a plant called Tongkat Ali (which translates to “Ali’s walking stick” in English!), a medium-size, slender tree reaching up to 10 metres in height. So is it effective? Well, some researchers certainly think so. 

What excites most people about tongkat ali is that the root significantly boosts sex drive and function in both men and women, by building testosterone. However, testosterone is not just a sex booster for men. In women, this vital hormone also fans the flames of ardour, and increases sensitivity in the erogenous zones. In both sexes, testosterone stimulates metabolism, promotes lipogenesis (burning of fat), increases the formation of red blood cells, and accelerates muscle growth. 

And the power of the plant has not gone unnoticed in the West either. This American researcher even ventured into the depths of sweltering hot Malaysian rainforest to “observe three aboriginal men chop a mature tongkat ali root, one of the most powerful aphrodisiac plants on Earth”. 

But whatever the merits of this plant, I reckon this testimony goes a bit too far…

Pasak Bumi jamu

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